What is enum & why it is used?

Enums are lists of constants . When you need a predefined list of values which do represent some kind of numeric or textual data, you should use an enum. You should always use enums when a variable (especially a method parameter) can only take one out of a small set of possible values.

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How many values can an enum have?

A string object that can have only one value, chosen from the list of values ‘value1’, ‘value2’, …, NULL or the special ” error value. In theory, an ENUM column can have a maximum of 65,535 distinct values ; in practice, the real maximum depends on many factors. ENUM values are represented internally as integers.

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How do you give an enum a value?

You cannot create an object of an enum explicitly so, you need to add a parameterized constructor to initialize the value(s) . The initialization should be done only once. Therefore, the constructor must be declared private or default. To returns the values of the constants using an instance method(getter).5 Tem 2019

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